Organizing email by thread is something that can help to tidy a busy Inbox, so if you want to enable it, you will find the option in Settings > Mail. The option to load remote images is enabled in Mail by default, but you can turn it off.Īs you might have guessed by now, that toggle is in the Settings app, inside the Mail section. We’re not talking about pictures people have attached in their emails to you. And do note here that by remote images, we’re talking about images that are inline URLs within a message that point to pictures online (just like in a web page). Pictures can also eat up bandwidth if you get a lot of them. Spam senders can use tiny embedded images to determine whether you’ve opened a message (and thereby verified that your email address is legitimate). Loading remote images in your email is part security concern and part bandwidth concern. Select the action you want each gesture to take by tapping on either the “Swipe Left” or “Swipe Right” options. The resulting screen shows two options: one for when you swipe to the left and one for when you swipe to the right. Next, tap “Swipe Options” to make changes to the actions Mail carries out when you swipe a message.
Being able to quickly swipe an email to archive it, mark it as read, or flag it is a real boon for productivity.Īgain, open the Settings app and tap the “Mail” option. If you have to deal with a lot of emails, triaging that email can be a big part of processing an overflowing Inbox. The options range from None all the way up to five lines.
Tap the “Preview” option in the “Message List” section.įinally, select the number of lines you want to display. Head into Settings and then tap the “Mail” option. Shorter previews let you see more messages on the screen at once. Longer previews let you see what messages are about without opening them. If you receive a lot of emails, you may also want to control how much of a message you see as a preview within the Mail app. You can choose whether to see icon badges, notifications on the Lock screen, and hear alert sounds when an email arrives. Make sure that the “Allow Notifications” switch is turned on (if you want notifications), and then choose how you would like notifications to arrive. Open Settings and tap “Notifications” to see a list of the installed apps that support notifications. You manage all iPhone and iPad notifications in the Settings app, and push notifications are no different. These will differ depending on the type of account involved but are all self-explanatory along the way. Tap the type of account you need to add and follow the authentication prompts. You’ll then see a list of popular account types, as well as an “Other” option for anyone with a specialized setup. If you’d like to add a new account, tap the “Add Account” button. Anything that can support email, calendars, and notes appear on this list. Those include any Google, Exchange, or Microsoft accounts, as well as your iCloud account. Here, you’ll see a list of all of the accounts on your device.
Open Settings app and select “Passwords & Accounts.”
If you don't set up SMTP authentication, you'll get an error 530 failure message when trying to send email messages.Managing, adding, and removing email accounts on an iPhone or iPad happens in the Settings app instead of the Mail app. SMTP (Simple Mail Transfer Protocol) is an authentication process that identifies the origin of emails it stops them being sent anonymously and therefore helps to combat spamĮnabling SMTP authentication is easy you usually switch it on by ticking a box called "My server requires authentication" in your email program's settings.To protect our email server from abuse by spammers, we also require all emails sent through our email service to have SMTP authentication.
SSL (Secure Socket Layer) ensures that all data exchanged between your email client and the BT Email server is encrypted making it almost impossible for anyone to steal your username or password.So if you're going to regularly use webmail and an email client, we'd recommend using IMAP with SSL enabled. POP3 doesn’t sync with the BT Email server so changes you make in your email program will not be transferred to your webmail inbox and could be lost.IMAP always syncs with the BT Email server, so any changes you make in your email program will also appear in your webmail inbox.Look to see whether the Mail Server "type" is set to IMAP or POP. To find out if you're using IMAP or POP, open up your email program, highlight the mail account you want to find out about, then open its settings or properties.
IMAP and POP are the protocols or technologies that enable you to download your email messages to your computer or device.